It's not the time to look for excuses.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.

I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

The only journey is the one within.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.